Lead GO Developer

Lead GO Engineer
Our client, a digital SaaS provider backed by the government is hiring a Lead GO Engineer to join a fast-scaling, purpose-driven SaaS organisation delivering impactful digital services. You will lead on several greenfield projects as the client continues to scale & transform. Our client has a fantastic ethos, focussed on aiding & helping people improve their lives. Our client is offering a fully remote contract & benefits (30 days holiday, 6% pension & health care) paying up to £75,000 to start ASAP.

In this role, you will design, develop, and optimise scalable, secure, cloud-based systems using Go (Golang), PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, and Docker. You will contribute to architecture discussions, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and help ensure the delivery of reliable, high-quality features.

This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer who has proven experience in a previous Lead or Management position as you must be able to demonstrate the capabilites to steer projects & provide coaching.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain Back End services using Go (Golang)
• Build and manage messaging patterns and asynchronous workflows with Redis and RabbitMQ
• Develop efficient, scalable database schemas and queries in PostgreSQL
• Build clean, well-documented RESTful APIs and service integrations
• Contribute to containerised environments using Docker and maintain cloud-native services on AWS
• Participate in architecture discussions, CI/CD pipelines, and quality assurance processes
• Mentor peers, share knowledge, and promote best practices in Back End development

• Solid experience in Back End development roles
• Strong proficiency in Go (Golang), including concurrency models and thread-safe coding
• Proven experience with Redis (caching & Pub/Sub) and RabbitMQ (messaging)
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL and libraries such as sqlx and gorm
• Solid understanding of Docker and containerised development
• Experience building RESTful APIs and integrating services

Desirable:

• AWS services (Lambda, EventBridge, SQS), microservices architecture, CI/CD tooling, event-driven systems